Surveillance: What is it good for?
By Gabby Bush, Simon Coghlan, Jeannie Paterson & Tim Miller Online monitoring raises serious questions about privacy and rights, but where justified it can be used for good if organisations consider wider issues like transparency and fairness. Youth, online news...
Is our COVID tracer app data protected enough?
By Andrew Chen New Zealand is introducing mandatory record keeping to help contact tracers. But is the data protected enough? From 11:59pm on Tuesday September 7, every person in Aotearoa New Zealand over the age of 12 will be required to keep a record of their...
Is TikTok breaching your privacy?
By Niels Wouters & Jeannie Paterson TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy. With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the...
How serious is the threat of cyberattacks?
By Alexander Gillespie Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier. Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it...
Is cyber security a people problem?
By Gehan Gunasekara In an age where personal information is the new oil, chief privacy officers in companies should be as important as chief financial officers. Gehan Gunasekara explains the human dimension to cyber vulnerabilities – and how we can keep safe. ...
COVID contact tracing: Were we clever, or just lucky?
By Tim Dare Bluntly, our management of contact tracing has been shambolic and it has important lessons beyond the COVID pandemic. New Zealand’s response to COVID-19 seems to have been effective and certainly looks assured. The Government seems to have had a plan, and...
Q+A: Is the age of privacy over?
Is the age of privacy over? What is at stake when we lose our privacy? How does a lack of privacy affect security, democracy, and society? Maria Armoudian speaks with Helen Nissenbaum, Michael Patrick Lynch, Bruce Schneier, and Joshua Fairfield. Helen Nissenbaum is a...
What does institutional trust mean in the digital age?
By Stephen Winter “Trust and confidence is critical for Police.” Those are the words of Howard Broad, New Zealand’s Deputy Chief Executive, Security and Intelligence in 2015. A former Police Commissioner, Broad made the statement when speaking about concerns over...Subscribe by Email
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